Now open enough applications and/or files to get Linux to swap onto the flash drive.

Now you have what looks like a flash drive, but is really a *nix based explorer.exe killer! Plug it into a computer running Vista, Vista will try and auto detect what to do (play music files, display pictures, etc), and then totally crap out on you.

Note: Some times it works and some times it doesn't. I think you might just want to turn off the computer instead of swapoff...